In a second twist, it emerged immigration staff have been told not to detain any new suspected illegals or failed asylum seekers for the next 48-hours. Officials say it would be pointless as there is nowhere to put them.

RABAT (Reuters) - A Moroccan court jailed a German tourist for six months for attempting to convert Muslims in the southern resort of Agadir, officials said on Wednesday.

The court in Agadir, Morocco's main tourist destination, found the 64-year-old man guilty of trying to "shake the faith of a Muslim," they added.

What exactly was he doing you ask?

Court officials named the German of Egyptian origin as Sadek Noshi Yassa, who was arrested last week as he was distributing books and CDs about the Christian faith to young Muslim Moroccans in the street, the officials said.

Now, if you dare criticize this barbaric act by Muslims, the left will call you a racist or bigot.

Just imagine in our present year, 2006: plan an opera in today's Germany, and then shut it down. Again, this surrender was not done last month by the Nazis, the Communists, or kings, but by the producers themselves in simple fear of Islamic fanatics who objected to purported bad taste. Or write a novel deemed unflattering to the Prophet Mohammed. That is what did Salman Rushdie did, and for his daring, he faced years of solitude, ostracism, and death threats--and in the heart of Europe no less. Or compose a documentary film, as did the often obnoxious Theo Van Gogh, and you may well have your throat cut in "liberal" Holland. Or better yet, sketch a simple cartoon in postmodern Denmark of legendary easy tolerance, and then go into hiding to save yourself from the gruesome fate of a Van Gogh. Or quote an ancient treatise, as did Pope Benedict, and then learn that all of Christendom may come under assault, and even the magnificent stones of the Vatican may offer no refuge--although their costumed Swiss Guard would prove a better bulwark than the European police. Or write a book critical of Islam, and then go into hiding in fear of your life, as did French philosophy teacher Robert Redeker.

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Human Rights Council passed a resolution on Darfur yesterday, its first on the region in its five-month existence. The resolution faulted no one for violating human rights and was so noncommittal that Europe and Canada opposed it. On more familiar ground, the council also passed two new anti-Israeli resolutions.

The Geneva-based rights council's record — six resolutions condemning Israeli violations; none criticizing any other country — was criticized even by Secretary-General Annan yesterday. Human Rights Watch, Amnesty, and other independent organizations have also expressed disappointment with the council recently.

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty complained as well? I'll be darned.

Annan, the master of the understatment.

"Obviously not everyone is entirely happy with the way they have started," Mr. Annan said. "Since the beginning of their work, they have focused almost entirely on Israel, and there are other crisis situations, like Sudan, where they have not been able to say a word."

Obviously, Mr. Annan the UN is still clueless.

Separately, the U.N. General Assembly today will hold its annual "international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people," marked symbolically on the anniversary of a November 29, 1947, resolution that divided British-mandated Palestine into two states

Yes, and last year at the annual get together, Annan posed with Palestinian representatives in front of a map of the Middle East that did not conatin the country of Israel - a member state of the UN.

America's college campuses, once thought to be bastions of free speech, have become increasingly intolerant toward the practice. Visiting speakers whose views do not conform to the prevailing left-leaning political mind-set on most campuses are at particular risk of having their free speech rights infringed upon.

While academia has its own crimes to atone for, it's the students who have become the bullies as of late. A disturbing number seem to feel that theirs is an inviolate world to which no one of differing opinion need apply. As a result, everything from pie throwing to disrupting speeches to attacks on speakers has become commonplace.

The 46-year-old schoolteacher tried to reassure his family that he would return safely. But his life was over, he was part-disembowelled and then torn apart with his arms and legs tied to motorbikes, the remains put on display as a warning to others against defying Taliban orders to stop educating girls.

Pelosi's two top picks have now been dumped because they were "tainted". That says a lot about Pelosi and the Democrats. And were still waiting to see what happens to William "Freezer" Jefferson who was caught with $90,000 in marked FBI bills in his freezer.

Air marshals, pilots and security officials yesterday expressed concern that airline passengers and crews will be reluctant to report suspicious behavior aboard for fear of being called "racists," after several Muslim imams made that charge in a press conference Monday at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Hamza's cell is 4 away from Dhiren Barot, the man sentenced to 40 years in prison for plotting to kill thousands of people in the UK and US. The two men are apparently spending lots of time together and with the other terrorists. A source told the newspaper:

He and Hamza are very close. They’re allowed together for Friday prayers and get the chance to speak with all of the other terror suspects. There’s nothing the prison can do to stop them.

Now, read this from Western Resistance. As you read, note the reference to Croydon mosque. Interesting how often it keeps cropping up in these stories.

"Winston" was not happy at being denounced by the Brixton mosque. He told the Evening Standard reporter: "Fucking cheek!" he said. "Mocking us. There be retribution for this!"

He described his religious beliefs: "I converted when I was in prison. I found it relaxing, we got better food. Now we all go to mosque together. If I refuse, they blow [shoot] me, innit. I pray twice a day: before I do crime, and after. I ask Allah for a blessing when I'm out on the street. Afterwards, I apologise to Allah for what I done."

Prison seems to attract a lot of converts to Islam, and many converts join because from the example of early Muslims, their activities of robbery and killing do not differ too widely from the behavior of the founder of Islam and his followers. Replace "caravan-raiding" with " raiding drug-dealer's apartments" and "attacking infidels" with "anyone outside one's gang" and a simplistic interpretation of Islam appeals to disaffected, violent youth, who do not need to radically change their mindset to call themselves religious.

In prison, the "Muslim Boys" have been responsible for maintaining their religious beliefs through forced conversions.

Tolerance may have died in Europe the day Mohammed Bouyeri murdered Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh.

Obviously tolerance died before that, since Van Gogh was murdered by Muslim fanatics for making an accurate movie critical of Islam's treatment of women. Europe's tolerance of Muslim intolerance may have ended that day.

Debra J. Saunders reviews Daveed Gartenstein-Ross's book "My Year Inside Radical Islam" and has a warning for the left. A warning I've been sounding for years and Saunders has the answer to why the left isn't listening - to their peril.

In a fascinating memoir due in stores in February, "My Year Inside Radical Islam," Gartenstein-Ross describes how he was drawn to Islam because he saw it as a religion of peace.

Over time, however, he watched himself and those around him seduced into a fanaticism that required them to loathe not only non-Muslims, but also Muslims who belonged to the wrong sect, listened to music or shaved. He had expected an open, accepting religion, only to hear sheikhs arguing that Muslims who leave the religion should be killed, that it is acceptable to kill civilians for jihad and that good Muslims should work to replace democratic governments with Shariah law.

She has this to say to the left.

Islam's approach to homosexuality is another area that the left ignores in deference to multiculturalism. (Think of Bay Area liberals who voice outrage at the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, but are silent about the Shariah policy on homosexuals -- 100 lashes or death.) Ditto the status of women.

And for those hypocritical leftists she has this warning.

There are forces in this world that would kill these elites for the apostasy, but elites are so blinded with their sense of superiority over their political enemies -- like President Bush -- that they can't even see the dagger pointed at their throats.

I don't care if the left want to committ suicide, I just don't want them to get me killed in the process.

Ethnic and religious courts are gaining ground in the UK. Will this lead to different justice for different people?

Aydarus Yusuf has lived in the UK for the past 15 years, but he feels more bound by the traditional law of his country of birth - Somalia - than he does by the law of England and Wales.

Which is another reason they're not integrating.

So how did this court come about? Some academic lawyers see these alternative legal systems as an inevitable - and welcome - consequence of multiculturalism.

Those wackademics and the BBC might welcome it but multiculturalism is dead. That doesn't stop the BBC from championing Islamic law.

Amongst the UK's Muslims there are sharply contrasting views about Sharia or Islamic law in the UK. Sharia is the historic legal foundations of the Islamic world - like English law, it has developed over centuries but is based on simple principles.

Yes, like death to gays, stoning of women, requiring rape victims to have four witness and if they can't, punish the victim, death to those who leave Islam, just to name a few.

Then the BBC turn to their go to Muslim organization, the Islamists front group, The Muslim Council of Britain.

The UK's most prominent Muslim organisation, the Muslim Council of Britain, opposes the idea, saying it will not support a dual legal system.

And why would they not support a dual legal system, Auntie? Because they want one legal system - Islamic.

CHICAGO — A public Christmas festival is no place for the Christmas story, the city says. Officials have asked organizers of a downtown Christmas festival, the German Christkindlmarket, to reconsider using a movie studio as a sponsor because it is worried ads for its film "The Nativity Story" might offend non-Christians.

Dubbing Chavez's government "hypercorrupt," Coronel identifies four main reasons for the nation's rapid decline to the bottom of global corruption and economic freedom indices. Misused oil income, mediocre management, Chavez's determination to play a "messianic" role in world affairs, and political populism designed to garner the affection of the people rather than promote the creation of new wealth have also contributed to the rise of graft.

Coronel classifies Venezuelan corruption into three categories -- grand corruption, bureaucratic corruption and systemic corruption -- and details disturbing examples of graft, incompetence and flagrant disregard for both the rule of law and the welfare of Venezuelans. For example, the operations of at least two state-run financial institutions are completely opaque and the institutions spend funds at the discretion of Chavez alone. The management of national funds is done in secrecy and without accountability to the people.

One of those benefiting from Chavez's corruption while the people of Vnezuela suffer, is none other than London's mayor, Red Ken Livingstone.

The one-sentence order came in a First Amendment battle that involves stories written in 2001 by Times reporters Judith Miller and Philip Shenon. The stories revealed the government's plans to freeze the assets of two Islamic charities, the Holy Land Foundation and the Global Relief Foundation.

Actually, the reporters tipped off the two charities that were the target of the terrorist funding investigation.

The Tribune leaves out some important facts in their reporting. Namely, that the two charities were shut down for funding Muslim terrorism.

Then there's this:

Like the CIA leak investigation into who in the Bush administration revealed the identity of Valerie Plame, the current Justice Department probe is being conducted by Patrick Fitzgerald, who is prosecuting Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff in the Plame case.

The Tribune knows full well that Richard Armitage of the State Department and not Bush's administration, has confessed to leaking Plame's name.

Twenty-four hours to save the NHS! I wonder how often that promise comes back to haunt Tony Blair 10 years later. Week after week reliable reports and the government’s own figures tell a disgraceful story of incompetence, debt, misery and filth in the National Health Service. That story is supported, week after week, by heart-rending personal accounts of horrors on the wards.

The broken new Labour promise that caught most public attention last week was the failure to abolish mixed-sex wards. Janet Street-Porter, the ferocious media personality, wrote about the misery of her sister when dying of cancer in a mixed-sex NHS ward. Plenty of other people have tried to draw attention to this disgrace and Baroness Knight, the Conservative peer, has been campaigning about it for years but — such is the spirit of the times — it takes a loud-mouth celebrity to get public attention.

I've recently had several friends, male and female, who had short hospital stays and were on mixed wards. That raised a question in my mind and I asked each of them, where did Muslim women stay? They have their own ward came the reply. Now, I don't know how widespread this is, but if true and I have no reason to doubt these people, it's wrong and should be stopped.

Nassauer said a religious legal system must not influence the state legal code.

"According to our conception of most fundamental human rights, the liberty of... faith is one of the most important ones. It includes the right to live without faith and consequently you do not have to obey a faith which is not yours," he said.

Nassauer said restrictions on women introduced under Sharia were "not acceptable".

"From our point of view it's not acceptable to forbid women to leave the house alone after eight o'clock in the evening," he said, citing one example delegates heard about.

Unlike the BBC, The New York Times identifies the terrorists as Muslims. It's a long article but well worth the read as it contains lots of disturbing facts. What stands out for me is that the evidence suggests that there are many more like this group.

Mr. Babar said Mr. Khyam told him that he and other “brothers” from Crawley were not just a local operation but reported to a man called Abdul Hadi, described by Mr. Khyam as the “No. 3” in Al Qaeda.

In mid-2003, the prosecution said, the Crevice suspects began coming together in Pakistan where Mr. Babar’s home in Lahore was a haven for young, radical Britons of Pakistani descent.

And this is worrying.

They found the cookie tin containing aluminum powder behind a shed at Mr. Khyam’s family home in Crawley. They also found a dozen CD-ROMs giving detailed plans of Britain’s electricity and gas systems that they charged had been stolen from the National Grid Transco utility company by an employee, Waheed Mahmood. At 34, Mr. Mahmood, a father of four, is the oldest Crevice defendant.

It would be very interesting to see who published this.

Investigators also found instructions for how to react if contacted by counterterrorism authorities.

I'm betting the MAB or MCB.

And this isn't comforting.

“Counterterrorism efforts haven’t been able to penetrate the process of radicalization and recruitment,” said Sajjan M. Gohel, director for international security at the London-based Asia-Pacific Foundation. “For every individual captured or killed, there are at least five more coming down the assembly line.”

The concern is not the building, but the activities of Tablighi Jamaat, the ultra-orthodox sect that is behind the huge mosque.

A petition against the scheme, organised by Muslims in the East London borough of Newham, attracted 2,500 signatures in only ten days and is continuing to draw support. It says that allowing Tablighi Jamaat to build the mosque would aggravate community tensions.

"The reason was that we really envisaged that in the future, once we are well-trained and well-equipped, we will be able to pay some of our debt to the international community by participating in peacekeeping operation or taking on the operation of shared interest and shared goals and to be also a permanent part of war against terrorism."

Mrs Blair had been invited to join the university chancellor, John Simpson, as the BBC's world affairs editor addressed a small group of journalism students. One student, Lya Pfaffli, said: "I think we were all quite taken aback at her complete lack of tact and diplomacy... she was in a room with at least three, reputedly ethical, journalists.

At least as of this writing, the BBC is not blaiming America for this crash. Ususaly, the BBC blames all airplane crashes on US sanctions even when the plane is Russian and the cause of the crash is a burst tyre. It's early yet and maybe the editors didn't catch the "error" yet.

Ok. Let me get this straight. The Iranians can build nuclear reactors, nuclear bombs and all manner of high tech military gear, but they can't do simple airplane maintenance. That's what the left wing media want you to believe.

I want to make it abundantly clear: if there’s anyone who believes that these youngsters want to fight, as the Pentagon and some generals have said, you can just forget about it. No young, bright individual wants to fight just because of a bonus and just because of educational benefits. And most all of them come from communities of very, very high unemployment. If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.

Unfortunately for Rangel, the re-enlistment figures are the highest for combat units in Iraq. Add to this the fact that our all volunteer force met or exceeded its recruiting goal. And Rangel needs to read up on the Myths about our soldiers More here and here.

Rangel is the Democrat pushing to bring back the draft.

As I keep saying, all those who voted for the Democrats are getting exactly what they deserve - a mess.

Besides the obvious, here's something that stood out for me. Listen as the man relates how he was chastised for criticizing Muslims in front of non Muslims. That's one of the many taboos in Islam, Muslims must not speak out against Islam in front of us infidels. As has been said, Islam can take a bullet but it can't take criticisim.

"We are asserting the right of Muslims to be free of fear, free of apprehension, to take an equal seat at the table," said Jafar Siddiqui, a member of American Muslims of Puget Sound.

OK. How about some mass protests outside mosques around the world by non Muslims asserting our right to be free of fear from Muslim terrorism and to demand that Muslims fix their problem. As Sir Steven said, this is a Muslim problem, they own it and they need to fix it.

TETOUAN, Morocco, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- A Moroccan seaport 3,000 miles from Iraq has become one of the world's most fertile recruiting grounds for jihadists, U.S. officials say.

In the past eight months a group of young men, all worshippers at the same mosque, have left their homes in Tetouan, a few miles from the Strait of Gibraltar, to become suicide bombers in Iraq, The Daily Telegraph of London reports.

This reminds me of the recent incident in one of my locals, here in Scotland, when 3 RAF men in uniform asked the bar staff if they were allowed in in uniform. The bar staff looked mystified and said but of course. Whereupon the locals paid for all their drinks.

The Times is always calling for people to be prosecuted for allegedly leaking Plame's name, until they found out it was Armitage, but when it comes to prosecuting Times own leakers then it's a different story.

But hey, why blame Muslims for Muslim terrorism when you can blame the press for reporting on Muslim terrorism?

Speaking to Zaman, Wolfgang Weber, Chair of the Bavaria Office for Protection of the Constitution, said that the terrorism threat had been exaggerated by the media. Noting that the point of view and the degree of exaggeration varied according to the channel and newspaper, Weber said they mostly focused on Islamic radicalism and extreme right wing groups, and further confessed that they had intelligence agents inside the Muslim associations.

Boris Johnson relates his recent experience flying BA and how our fears are harming our children, affecting their education and, ultimately, our society. I'm reminded of Pink Floyd's song "Momma" and the words "did you have to build it so high".

As a parent of 3 young children, two boys and a girl, I have to confess to having some of these fears. I'm sorry but as a parent of young children you can't be too careful in this day and age. You can't undo what's done.

My wife and I talk about this often and we try and balance our fears with rational thought. Still, depending on the situation, the radar is on and the defenses go up depending on the situation.

While the numbers of paedophiles may be small and the number of teachers or other adults in positions of authority who molest young children is likewise small, no parent wants their child to be the one in the news. Everytime there's a newsreport about such incidents, the report usualy talks about how surprised everyone is that it happened in their town or how they never suspected so and so.

With increased awareness, improved police investigative techniques and more people willing go come forward, we've discovered in the last few years that the paedophile problem is much worse than we thought. We now know that our old sterotype of what a paedophile looks like was totally wrong. A paedophile can be young, old, male, female, professional, doctor, lawyer, teacher or doctor, to name a few. This is what makes defending your child so difficult. As with most things, authorities differ on what the profile looks like, or indeed, if you can profile a paedophile. But from what I've read this one sounds close.

No doubt people will have their own views and ways of handling the situation. All I know is that I would never forgive myself if I didn't do all I could to protect my children. That doesn't mean we build the wall so high, that means we educate our children about the dangers, provide them with the tools to stay safe, keep our ears and eyes open, talk to our neighbours, teachers and the police and keep abrest of the news on the subject. We owe it to our children to give them at least a start in life.

Having said all that, BA's policy, if it is a policy, seems a bit overboard. I've never heard of a child being attacked on a plane.

Is this a sign we may be starting to turn the tide on Islamists? It's a small step but a step in the right direction.

NEW YORK, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Bowing to pressure from conservative Christian groups, several U.S. retail stores are reverting to the "Merry Christmas" theme this holiday season.

Imagine that, Christian's pressuring to put Christmas back in Christmas. The UPI just couldn't help themselves and label them "conservative Christian groups", as if all Christians don't want Christmas to be celebrated.

• Fight for the equality of women and for an end to the use of the Koran as the fountain of the law, especially by eliminating its function as a penal code.

• Face the brutal fatwahs of imams who condemn dissenting writers to death.

• Denounce the warmongering nature of a religious creed that consecrates the virtue of the jihad (at least to the fundamentalists) and separates the world into two halves: the half that already has submitted to Islam and the half that must be conquered.

But not even those heroic battles constitute the hardest part of the immense task facing liberal Muslims. The bitterest swallow, but an inevitable test, is to:

• Lead the defense of Israel's right to exist as an independent and peaceful nation alongside an equally free and peaceful Palestinian state.

Read this story and if you live in London, see if you can help catch this guy. If you have a blog, spread the picture around. Citizens can fight back. In the US several of these types of thugs have been caught using an internet campaign.

Friday, November 24, 2006

LET me first introduce myself before I bombard you with the little details of my life that has so far spiralled out of control and now I have found myself married to a man who does not speak English, who I don't really fancy and who is expected to arrive in the UK in the next couple of weeks!

My name is Rujina Begum. My friends call me Ruji for short. I am a British born Bangladeshi Muslim, living in Oldham.

I am 23 years old and work in PR in Manchester and oh yes I, a well educated modern girl - who always dreamed of marrying a prince riding up in white horse - recently changed my mind and had an arranged marriage in Sylhet, Bangladesh.

Why do you ask did I go and do something crazy like that I hear you say?

Well it’s quite simple, my ex boyfriend decided that he will marry his cousin instead - if three years of being together didn’t mean anything to him then that was fine by me!

But it left me with a broken heart and what better way to mend this broken heart but to get married before he did! Finding a good looking husband from the Greater Manchester region was taking too long.

Ruji is obviously not as well educated as she thinks she is.

She ends her introduction with this.

But anyway that sums me up for the time being - and you'll be hearing from me a lot more as I spend the first couple of months trying to adjust to married life with da husband from Bangladesh who doesn’t speak English and who I don’t fancy!!!

Well Ruji, let's hope you don't end up dead from a so called "honour murder". One things for sure, the minute your new husband arrives we, the tax payer, start paying for your little adventure.

Who knows I may even grow to fancy him and he can go and learn English so that I can take him out to meet my friends and we can go to the various parties I get involved in and he communicate with my colleagues - I hope.

Yeah Ruji, who knows, maybe he can go and learn English so he can, you know, get a job and try and integrate into British society. But if you're anything to go by there's not much hope of that. Read on as Ruji relates her nonchalant attitude to marrying a man who doesn't speak English and doesn't even know. Note how there's a hint of bigotry.

I couldn't let my parents down either - though my dad seemed more keen on the match than my mum - she had a problem with short Bengali men - she said they were always up to no good!

What? All Bengali men or just the short ones? It's not just her parents either, just listen as her friends tell her to hide his passport, not disclose her finances and not introduce him to her friends.

In the end Ruji senses everything is not right but she can't just put her finger on what's wrong.

I was off to a great start here - basically I have been told not to trust the guy - but if that was the case why on earth did everyone encourage me when I said I was going to go back "home" to get married. At the time I was told it was the best decision that I had made - I was desperate to get over my ex but at the same time I was a little thrilled - it was a little flutter of excitement in my stomach and that was all. But the signs of encouragement from the very same people that were now telling me to be on my guard was quite disturbing.

Well duh, Ruji, everyone was just glad you were going home to get married. You know, as opposed to marrying an infidel here.

The Rev Tony Kelso, from Matchborough, West Midlands, told The Daily Telegraph: "It is ludicrous that British Airways has the Union Flag on their tail fins which is made up of sacred crosses from our United Kingdom and yet it practises this discrimination against Christians.

Watch for BA to give in to Muslim appeasement and drop the Union Flag. The prison service had to because it was deemed offensive to Muslim prisoners.

If anyone tells you it's hypocritical to be against the veil but for the cross, remind them that the cross is a religious symbol while the veil is not. The veil is a radical Muslim statement.

Mrs Azmi had said she was willing to remove her veil in front of children, but not if male colleagues were present.

And yet when she was interviewed by the male head of the school she wore no veil and failed to mention she would be wearing it in school. Mrs. Armi is nothing more than an agent provocateur.

The dispute was brought as a test case under new religious discrimination regulations, the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2004.

Which is what this case is really all about.

Now the courts need to reverse Mrs. Tony Blair's famous veil case.

At the time of the tribunal, she criticised government ministers who had intervened in the case, saying it made her "fearful of the consequences for Muslim women in this country who want to work".

You mean for those Muslim women whose male relatives will let them work, don't you? Here again, since the veil is not a religious symbol, Muslim women, those that are allowed to work by their male relatives, should have no fear of going to work. Just don't show up in a radical Muslim costume.

And what about the fears of those school children who were being taught by someone who looked like Darth Vader.

Mrs Azmi's case became a central part of a national debate on multiculturism in Britain.

As did UK Muslims fanatical reaction to the Muhammad cartoons.

Glad to see people in this country waking up to the danger of appeasing Muslims and standing up to them.

Increasingly, Muslim restrictions on alcohol and dogs also effect Western non-Muslims: Somali cab drivers in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn., Pakistani minicab drivers in London, England, and Muslim taxi drivers in Melbourne, Australia, refused to transport blind passengers with guide-dogs only after the Saudi religious police issued a ban on dogs. They also refuse passengers suspected of carrying duty-free sealed alcohol bottles to avoid "cooperating in sin," emulating Iran's president Mahmoud Ahamadinejad's well-publicized refusal to attend a lunch at the United Nations in New York because alcohol was served. [...]

In Melbourne, Australia, the Victorian Taxi Association spokesman Neil Sach's reaction was even more telling. "Muslims are good people and the community has to realise that the days of the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant are well and truly over," he concluded.

He may be right. The petrodollar-backed Islamists are on a fast track to subvert democracies from within. With the best PR money can buy, they use media and communication outlets to popularize and legitimize the Islamist agenda, while deceiving the public as to its very nature. Under the guise of personal freedom, so cherished in the West, they introduce conservative Muslim restrictions on private and public life.

The mother of nine and grandmother of 41 became the oldest Palestinian suicide bomber at the age of 57, selecting as her target troops operating near her northern Gaza home in Jabaliya, seeking to curb near-daily rocket attacks on Israel.

In Indonesia, the Lashkar Jihad Islamists forced 3,928 non-Muslims on six islands in the Moluccas to become Muslims. This involved forcibly circumcising the men and women without anesthetics, according to the Sydney Morning Herald of January 27, 2001:

Conversions from Islam are forbidden by law in the country. Those who have chosen to go to the courts to proclaim their desire to convert from Islam to Christianity, such as Lina Joy, have been threatened with death.

But according to the left, Islam is the religion of peace and tolerance.

ULTRA-RADICAL Muslim groups are being formed in Sydney and Melbourne in defiance of the nation's fundamentalist Wahhabi leadership, which stands accused of becoming more Westernised and selling itself out to authorities.

I give thanks O Lord for Dick Cheney's Heart, that brave organ which has done its darn-tootin' best on four separate occasions to do what we can only dream about.

O Lord, give Dick Cheney's Heart, Our Sacred Secret Weapon, the strength to try one more time! For greater love hath no heart than that it lay down its life to rid the planet of its Number One Human Tumor.

This is how sick the left in America has become. It's one thing to disagree with someone politically or even dislike them personally, but to pray for the vice President of the United States to have a heart attack, is just plain sick. It also reveals the true heart of the left in America - black, cold and sick.

This isn't contained in some comment that Huff and Puff can claim they didn't know about or control. This is a post on her blog and she should be ashamed.

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Nice to see the Times exposing Liberty for the extremist group that it is. Liberty is the UK version of the ACLU.

Almost single-handedly she has shifted the civil liberties lobby so far beyond the parameters of mainstream opinion that ministers pray she will oppose them. Their logic is simple: if Liberty objects, Middle Britain will automatically conclude that a policy is pure common sense.

Now, if we can get Americans to realize the same thing about the ACLU.

Some people think there's some hypocrisy surrounding the calls for banning the burqa while defending the wearing of the cross. The difference is that the cross is a religious symbol while the burqa is a radical Islamic political statement and not a religious symbol. What's more, the burqa is banned in several Muslim countries and most Muslim scholars say it has no place in Islam.

However, the most divisive controversy erupted not in Europe, but in Tunisia, where the government launched a campaign to implement "Decree 108," first issued in 1981, which forbids not only the full veil (niqab) in public places, but also the less restrictive head covering (hijab).

The controversy began with the state-controlled Tunisian media reporting statements by President Zin Al-'Abidin Ben 'Ali and his ministers against the head covering, in which they called it an "imported form of sectarian dress" - a reference to the growing influence of Saudi-style Wahhabism in North Africa.

Those on the left who try and defend the burqa are playing into the hands of radical Islam.

Two thirds of all new cases diagnosed last year [here in Britain] were in people who contracted HIV in other countries where the virus is more prevalent, such as sub-Saharan Africa.

And

"This is due to people living longer with HIV due to advances in treatment, sustained levels of newly acquired infections in gay men, further diagnoses among heterosexuals who acquired their infection in Africa, and cases being picked up earlier."

And

"Over two-thirds of diagnoses we see are from people who acquired their infection outside the UK.

I don't know about you but the impression I get from the BBC is that people on holiday, especially in Africa, are contracting HIV and bringing it back home. That impression is deepened by the lack of one important word missing from the entire BBC report - immigrants.

Here's the Mail's headline: "3 in 4 new HIV cases in African immigrants"

Three in four of all new heterosexual cases of HIV in Britain last year were among African immigrants, according to official figures.

The vast majority of them contracted the disease overseas before moving to Britain, says the Health Protection Agency (HPA).

In total, almost 8,000 new cases of HIV were diagnosed last year - the vast majority among black Africans and gay men.

Doesn't the black, African, immigrant and gay community have a right to know that information? Doesn't HIV support groups have the right to know that information so they can be more proactive in stopping the spread of HIV? Doesn't the public have a need to know that information so as to be better informed when making political decisions on immigration policies? In short, doesn't the public have a right to know the truth? Instead, we are forced to pay the BBC to hide the truth and thereby endanger the public.

Read the Mail's report in its entireity and compare it to the BBC's report. Notice the Mail reports the information the BBC leaves out, is being used to combat the spread of HIV.

Mustapha at Beirut Spring says "today will herald a new age of Hezbollah Isolation," since Aoun's group is attending Gemayel's funeral. He may well be right. Hezbollah, properly cowed by the Lebanese majority, cancelled their scheduled riot today.

London, with over 1,000 mosques, is already Europe’s unofficial Muslim capital. Its status will be enhanced immeasurably by the Markaz, whose size—it is projected to hold 70,000 worshippers—will dwarf St. Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey. To contemplate the building of so potent a symbol of Islamic triumphalism over Europe’s Christian heritage is all but incredible.

Will it happen? Britain today is a nation torn between defiance and appeasement, led by a political elite that with few exceptions seems to be intimidated by Islam and reluctant to address—when it is not complicit in—anti-Semitism. The British people are not lost to the West, but the battle to preserve liberty in their country is only just beginning. Which makes it all the more fitting that the immediate battleground should be the East End, the place where so much began in the days when Cromwell’s Latin secretary, John Milton, was writing Areopagitica, his great defense of free speech, and when Menasseh ben Israel was pleading successfully for Jews to be treated with toleration.

WASHINGTON: Women have the right to dress as they please, but the rights of the individual have to be balanced with the rights of society. Taking up the current controversy over the veil, Tarek Fatah, founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress, writes in the Toronto-based Globe and Mail that the veil is not required by Islam, nor should it be viewed as a conflict between Muslims on one side and the “Islamophobic” West on the other. The debate, he argues, is being waged primarily within Muslim society and is part of the battle for the heart and soul of Muslim communities from Tunisia to Turkey, Indonesia to India, and right here in Canada. He cites Yusuf al-Qaradawi who said last week, “It is not obligatory for Muslim women to wear the niqab. The majority of Muslim scholars and I do not support the niqab in which women cover their faces.” khalid hasan

Sabit, 61, has been Afghanistan's attorney general for less than three months, and he has already earned a reputation as a fearless, even fanatical, crusader. Blunt and impatient, he appears eager to shake up the status quo and indifferent to his growing list of enemies in high places.

Considering all of the attention and stir caused by just one interview like this, we are hoping this will give others the strength and courage to get in touch with Folkets Nyheter or other media who are working outside of the establishment. An establishment with a massive hostility towards ethnic Swedes and hell bent on distorting reality.

The established mass media of Sweden have deserted the Swedish people long ago, and so has our political leadership. It is now up to us who have realized and acknowledged this, to build a structure that will be able to circumvent and in time replace the current establishment with something better.

The BBC is also "An establishment with a massive hostility towards ethnic [Britions] and hell bent on distorting reality".

The problems in Iraq, in the radical Middle East at large—with democratization, with nuclearization, with Islamism—are not, repeat not, a lack of dialogue with Syria and Iran.

We know what both rogue states wish and it is our exit from the Middle East and thus a free hand to undermine the newly established democracies of Lebanon and Iraq—in the manner that all autocracies must destroy their antitheses.

They both sponsor and harbor terrorists for a reason—to undermine anything Western: a Western-leaning Lebanese democracy, a Western-style democracy in Iraq, a Westernized Israel, or soldiers of the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Syria, as we see once again with the killing of Pierre Gemayel, is practicing serial murdering in Lebanon. I was on the Hugh Hewitt show last night, and he was right to make the point that Syria is like the Nazi regime of the late 1930s that sent its agents into Eastern Europe and Austria to assassinate and undermine republican leaders, to pave the way for the ‘necessary’ and ‘welcome’ entrance of the order-bringing Wehrmacht into a ‘brother’ state.

Iran is a rogue nation that seeks bombs to use them against the region’s only viable democracy in Israel. Neither Damascus nor Teheran can tolerate a democratic Iraq—no more than the Soviet Union would have allowed the Baltic Republics to have pro-Western democracies or Nazi Germany wished to be a partner in peace with republican Czechoslovakia.

Lost in the current debate over Iraq - civil war or sectarian violence, success or failure, increasing troops or strategic redeployment, victory or defeat - is the sea-change occurring in western Iraq. The U.S. military has coaxed a large majority of the Sunnis of Anbar province, perhaps one of the most sympathetic groups to al-Qaeda in the Middle East, to turn on al-Qaeda. The choice wasn't difficult after the tribes saw what al-Qaeda had to offer – death, torture, Taliban like sharia, humiliation, destruction of commerce. The relationship and intelligence gained form operating in western Iraq will benefit the west during the Long War – if the U.S. doesn't withdrawal precipitously and leave the Anbar tribes to the predations of al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Many of the gathered throng also demanded an end to the alleged support of the Taliban by elements within the Islamabad government of President Pervez Musharraf, who insists that he is an ally in the war against terrorism and whose police arrested 39 suspected Taliban fighters in the city of Quetta yesterday. "The Taliban are not the creation of Pashtun society, but the creation of the Pakistan army," said Afsandyar Wali, head of the Awami National Party (ANP).

Perhaps my beloved Britain has endured some of the worst excesses. When I spoke at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival a couple of years back and criticized newspapers that headlined suicide bombers as martyrs, I was told by two angry leading intellectuals that I had lived too long in America.

Something similar happened at this year's Hay-on-Wye festival, sponsored by the Guardian, where a five-person panel discussed "Are there are any limits to free speech?" One of the Muslim panelists said if anyone offended his religion, he would strike him. A lawyer, Anthony Julius, responded that Jews had lived as minorities under two powerful hegemonies, Christian and Muslim, and had been obliged to learn how to deal nonviolently with offense caused to them by the sacred scriptures of both. He started by referring to an anti-Semitic passage in the New Testament — which passed without comment. But when he began to list the passages in the Koran that denigrate Jews, describing them as monkeys and pigs, the panelists went ballistic. One of them, Madeline Bunting of the Guardian, put her hand over the microphone and said words to the effect, "I am not going to sit here and listen to any criticisms of Muslims." She was cheered, and not one of the journalists in the audience from right or left uttered a word about free speech — not hate speech, mind you, but free speech of a moderate nature.

CAIRO, Egypt: Prominent Muslim scholars from around the world, including conservative religious leaders from Egypt and Africa, met Wednesday to speak out against female genital mutilation at a rare high-level conference on the age-old practice.

CAIRO - Hanadi was a teenager when she was sold into a short-term marriage by her father. “When I was 14, my father told me I was to be married to a man from Saudi Arabia,” said Hanadi, who did not want to use her real name.

“Later on, I discovered that my father and the man had agreed I would stay with him for a month, until he returned home [to Saudi Arabia] at the end of the summer. There was never any intention for us to remain together any longer than his holiday in Egypt.”

JACKSONVILLE, FL-- It's a video showing a room full of children sharing their dreams. They are not excited about being doctors, lawyers or teachers. Instead, the children shout, "We are the nation of Hezbollah. I shall sacrifice my life for Allah."

Information gathered during questioning showed that members of the group had met with an airport worker and offered money to smuggle a suitcase bomb aboard a passenger plane. The worker at the (un-named) airport had apparently been willing to place the bomb on the plane.

Instead of returning the greeting, the couple said nothing, pulled out a gun, and forced the 58-year old store keeper into a back room. There they bound him up with duct tape, and hit him several times. The lady in the burka was no lady. She was a guy. Once the pair had tied Mr Khalid up, they proceeded to take all of the items from the display cases. They told Mr Khalid: "Keep quiet, keep quiet, close your eyes." Khalid caught a glimpse of both people, and said they were either Indian or Pakistani.

The nature of the two would-be suicide bombers' deaths is strikingly common in Afghanistan. In sharp contrast to attacks in Iraq, scores of suicide strikes across Afghanistan have killed only the attacker, or a very few victims.

The most comical aspect of this whole rout is the way the diplomats will continue to prepare for the big meeting with Syria and Iran to broker a regional peace, something they believe "only a Superpower" can achieve. Alas, the habits of self-importance die hard. The countries are already making their own arrangements with the new victors, because those countries realize better than Barack Obama that you cannot charge a price for what you have already given away. And what will come of it all won't be peace. It will be war on a scale that will either draw America back into a larger cauldron or send it scurrying away behind whatever line of defense it thinks it has the will to hold. More than 60 years ago, Winston Churchill told the appeasers they had a choice between war and dishonor. They had chosen dishonor, and added that now they would have both war and dishonor.

"Even as more and more passengers and airlines take reality-based preemptive and precautionary measures to prevent the next 9/11--and even as the headlines bring us daily evidence of al Qaeda's continued airport/airplane terrorist plots--we have a Democratic Congress ready to criminalize airport investigations of any Muslims at any time for any security reasons.

With such staunch Democrat defenders of homeland security like these, beholden to CAIR and political correctness, who needs enemies?"